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Hospitality & Vacation Rentals

Direct Booking EngineCalendar SyncZero Commission

Plataformas de Reserva Directa para Alquileres Vacacionales

Tus Comisiones de OTA te Están Costando $2K–$8K Por Propiedad, Cada Año

Per-Booking Fees

You keep every dollar

80%+

Direct Booking Rate

Post-launch target

95+

Lighthouse Score

Mobile-first performance

<2s

Time to Interactive

Edge-deployed globally

What A Direct Booking Platform Actually Does — And What It Stops Costing You

Your guest lands on your branded site, browses your property gallery, checks real-time availability, and books—no Airbnb tab open, no VRBO redirect. A direct booking platform runs live calendar sync across every channel, processes payments, fires automated guest messages, and handles dynamic pricing. You keep the revenue, the email address, and the repeat booking. Airbnb and VRBO stop extracting 15–20% on every transaction. For a modest portfolio pulling $120K annually, that's $18K–$24K you're handing to platforms that own your guest data, control your visibility, and change the algorithm whenever they want. A direct platform breaks that dependency.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Airbnb and VRBO take 15-20% of everything On a modest portfolio, that's $15K-$50K+ gone every year—money that could've gone toward marketing, renovations, or just staying in your pocket.

OTA algorithm changes can wreck your visibility with zero warning One policy update, and bookings drop 40-60%. You've got no recourse and no negotiating power. It's their platform, their rules.

You don't own your guest data When someone rebooks through Airbnb, they generate a new commission instead of becoming a customer you actually have a relationship with. That guest might stay with you five times and you'd never know their email address.

Generic OTA listings make every property look identical So you compete on price. That erodes margins and pulls in discount hunters instead of the guests who actually come back.

Manual calendar management across multiple platforms causes double-bookings One overlap destroys guest trust and triggers OTA penalties that can suppress your listing for weeks. It's a painful, avoidable problem.

Contact forms and email-based booking kill conversions fast 72% of travelers abandon inquiries that don't offer instant confirmation—and they go right back to Airbnb.

Cumplimiento

Real-Time Calendar Sync

Bidirectional iCal and API sync across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and your branded site. Double-bookings become technically impossible, not just unlikely.

Integrated Payment Processing

Stripe-powered checkout with deposits, split payments, damage deposits, and automatic refunds. PCI-compliant, no separate merchant account required.

Dynamic Pricing Engine

Automated rate adjustments based on seasonality, lead time, local events, and occupancy targets. You get OTA-level pricing intelligence without the commissions attached.

Guest Data Ownership

Every booking captures guest contact info directly into your own database. Build email lists, run retention campaigns, and turn one-time visitors into repeat direct bookers who never touch an OTA again.

Multi-Property Dashboard

Manage availability, pricing, messaging, and analytics across your whole portfolio from one admin interface. Works for one property or 100+ without adding complexity.

Secure Guest Portal

Guests access check-in instructions, house rules, local guides, and messaging through authenticated accounts. Less support overhead, better arrival experience.

Qué construimos

Build a mobile-first property site with live availability, instant booking confirmation, and your brand—not a clone of every other listing

Your guests book on a site you control—photography, messaging, upsells, and confirmation flows that reflect your hospitality standards, not platform constraints

Integrate Google Vacation Rentals structured data so your properties surface directly in search results where 72% of mobile travel bookings start

Your properties rank in Google's native vacation rental module, capturing intent before travelers ever open an OTA app or comparison site

Automate pre-arrival, check-in, mid-stay, and post-checkout messaging sequences that trigger on booking status—set once, runs forever

Your guest communication fires automatically based on reservation events—no manual email threads, no missed check-in instructions, no post-stay silence

Deploy a post-stay review system that builds social proof on your platform instead of feeding Airbnb's trust engine

Your 5-star reviews accumulate on your domain, creating a moat of social proof that compounds with every stay instead of subsidizing Airbnb's marketplace credibility

Sync a channel manager that keeps OTA listings active for discovery while steering pricing advantages and repeat guests to your direct site

Your OTA presence stays live for visibility while your direct site captures repeat guests and price-sensitive bookings without commission drag—it's not either/or, it's strategic distribution

Track booking source, ADR, occupancy, RevPAR, and commission savings in real-time dashboards that show exactly what you're reclaiming

Your revenue dashboard surfaces exactly how much you're saving per booking, which channels convert best, and where occupancy gaps actually exist—data you own, not data Airbnb rations

Nuestro proceso

Portfolio & Revenue Audit

We start by digging into your current OTA performance, commission costs, booking patterns, and guest demographics. That data shapes the direct booking strategy and shows exactly where your highest-value conversion opportunities are hiding.

Week 1

Platform Architecture & Design

Property page templates, booking flow wireframes, payment integration architecture, and calendar sync infrastructure—all mapped out before we write a line of code. You sign off on every design decision first.

Weeks 2-3

Development & Integration

We build your booking engine, connect payment processing, configure calendar sync with your existing OTA listings, and implement dynamic pricing rules. Every property imports automatically. No manual data entry.

Weeks 4-6

Testing & Migration

Full end-to-end testing of the booking flow, calendar sync across all channels, payment processing, and load testing under peak-season traffic. All of this happens before launch, not after something breaks.

Week 7

Launch & Guest Acquisition

Go live with Google Vacation Rentals integration, email campaign templates for past guests, and a clear OTA-to-direct conversion strategy. Includes 30 days of post-launch support and optimization.

Week 8+

Next.jsSupabaseStripeVercelGoogle Calendar APIiCal SyncMapboxCloudinary

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuánto puedo ahorrar cambiándome a reservas directas?

La mayoría de las OTA cobran 15-20% por reserva. En $100K de ingresos anuales, eso son $15K-$20K en comisiones—desaparecidas. Una plataforma de reserva directa elimina eso completamente. Tus costos continuos son el procesamiento de pagos (típicamente 2.9% + 30¢ por transacción) y hosting. La mayoría de los clientes recuperan su inversión en la plataforma dentro de 3-6 meses del lanzamiento.

¿Debo quitar mis listados de Airbnb y VRBO?

No abandones las OTA completamente—esa no es la estrategia. Úsalas para descubrimiento y tu sitio directo para conversión y retención. Mantén los listados de OTA activos para alcanzar nuevos viajeros, pero ofrece ventajas de precio ligeramente mejores en tu sitio marcado. Una vez que alguien reserva directamente, el email marketing evita que vuelvan a Airbnb para hacer una nueva reserva.

¿Cómo funciona la sincronización de calendarios en múltiples plataformas?

Usamos sincronización iCal bidireccional e integraciones API que actualizan la disponibilidad en tiempo real en Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, y tu sitio directo. Cuando una reserva llega en cualquier canal, cada otro calendario bloquea esas fechas en segundos. Sin gestión manual, sin espacios vacíos.

¿Puedo aceptar pagos directamente sin una cuenta de comerciante?

Sí. Stripe se integra directamente en tu motor de reservas y maneja cumplimiento PCI automáticamente. Soporta tarjetas de crédito, Apple Pay, y Google Pay. Puedes configurar depósitos, pagos divididos, depósitos de seguridad con lógica de reembolso automático, y procesamiento de tarifas de cancelación—sin necesidad de cuenta de comerciante separada.

¿Cuánto tiempo toma construir una plataforma de reserva directa?

Una construcción típica toma 6-8 semanas desde el inicio hasta el lanzamiento. Sitios de una sola propiedad con flujos de reserva simples pueden estar listos en 4-5 semanas. Portfolios de múltiples propiedades con gestión de canales, precios dinámicos, y portales de huéspedes generalmente toman las 8 semanas completas. Cada compromiso incluye 30 días de soporte post-lanzamiento.

¿Mi sitio de reserva directa aparecerá en los resultados de búsqueda de Google?

Construimos con datos estructurados de Google Vacation Rentals desde el primer día. Tus propiedades aparecen directamente en los resultados de búsqueda de viajes de Google con precios, disponibilidad, y enlaces de reserva—sin intermediario de OTA. Combina eso con SEO técnico sólido y puntuaciones Lighthouse de 95+, y tu sitio compite por visibilidad orgánica donde 72% de las reservas de viajes móviles realmente comienzan.

Direct Booking Platforms from $8,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support. Zero per-booking commissions, ever.

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